What all good happens is due to God... What all bad happens is due to the man's mind...🔗

Even if a tiny fish wants to remain still in the river water saying, 'No, I won't swim' as it lives in a flowing river, it will be pulled and drawn away along the course of the river.

Resisting that, even if that fish tries to be still, it will have to suffer unnecessarily.

The fish, which opposes the river, would struggle. It would be thrown away. It would think that it is being ill-treated by the water. It would unfortunately believe that the water drops surrounding it are snatching away its independence!

The natural power called God is many, many times faster than the river.

It is subtle.

Man, whose mind is many times subtler than that of the fish, has detached himself from nature.

Instead of being led along the path of nature, man wants only to go in a direction opposing the flowing river of life, according to his own imaginations.

Result – Unfortunately he believes that he is being made to struggle; all surrounding him are misusing him, and they are snatching away his independence!

It is celebration and celebration only all the way for the river, which has surrendered and offered itself to go along with the course of the river. Going along with the river flow will be continuously pleasant as the joy ride in a merry-go-round.

The man, who has surrendered himself to the flow of nature, will imagine himself as a drop of the pleasant river of life. He will be blissful.

A truth:

Whether you oppose or do not oppose the river of life, you will be pulled along. This is law of nature.

A meditation rule:

Good happens due to God. Bad happens when we oppose those goods due to our ignorance.

Begin to live life like the fish which swims along with the current.

Live, realising that, what all you got, were all given by God.

If you live like that, you will reach that blissful state where neither good nor bad would be able to shake you.

A wisdom statement:

Life is not in our hands. Joy is not in our hands. Opposing and grieving only are in our hands.

Then what next? You have to spread your hands and take a dive into the river only, Is it not...? 66. Right.....Wrong....

Only a mind, which is inferior in quality, will be aroused when under pressure. It will act as per other's dictations. It will call wrong as right. It will argue that something that is right is wrong.

• So, it is an act of an inferior mind to estimate and judge others.
• Until the quality of humanity rises, differentiating people is a continuous serial novel.
• A man of fine quality cannot differentiate between people. There will be no need for that too.
• Praising the right thing rightly, taking efforts to make others understand the mistakes correctly - These belong only to a person who knows how to live a balanced and impartial life.

A family man asked an ancient Master, 'Sir, how to find out whether I show affection in the correct way and whether my affection is not wrong. Please tell me the means.'

The Master said, 'When you become mature enough to the extent of showing affection towards your enemy... then your affection reaches a mature state that such affection is not a wrong.

When you begin taking action like a friend for your enemy's pleasure... then your affection becomes correct.'

• The right love has the ability to make an enemy a friend.

The wrong type of love has the ability to make a friend an enemy.

True love is beyond all ' right and wrong'. The drama of affection enacted by man in the name of love is bound by 'right and wrong'.

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Just because Vivekananda ate fish, if one eats meat, he does a wrong in the name of right.

Because Gandhiji did not eat meat, if one stops eating meat, he also does a wrong in the name of right. Because it is not a decision taken out of experiential clarity, it is a hastily taken decision.

On matters other than the ones about which we are experientially clear, if we begin to adopt and implement certain things in our lives, just because some one did so, or said so, then, we will also be doing the wrong thing in the name of doing a right one.

• 1. If I do, it is right. If you do, it is wrong.
  • -- This is peak of ego.
  • -- First type.
• 2. If a friend does it, it is right. If an enemy does the same thing, it is wrong.
  • -- Second type.
• 3. Even when a friend does wrong, wrong is wrong only. When an enemy does a good thing, it is good only. All right!
  • -- Third type.

First category of persons is pitiable, since they obstinately believe, 'I am right.' They believe that what all they think is correct and true. They believe as right those things that are totally and fully wrong!

Poor people! They have a mind which acts erratically, having been afflicted with various types of negative thoughts.

They will not understand their pathetic condition even though so many great souls have come and taught these things time and again.

That person will not know the truth that the 'inferior thoughts' which come from a confused mind will be wrong only, as long as that person has a feeling, 'I am all right'. It will appear as though the whole world is committing wrongs.

Many times many people fall into the pit of thought 'I am all right'! Result: We prick, tear and destroy the gem-like minds of people around us and make a hell of those few minutes.

For the hell to become a heaven, in that sentence, 'I am all right', the 'I' should be broken away and 'right' alone should be understood.

The second type of people is 'prisoners of circumstances'. For them, the wrongs of their friends will not appear as wrongs. Further even very correct things done by the enemy will not appear as right.

We understand about life only from those around us, that is, from those whom we like and those we don't like.

When we separately divide persons as those liked by us, and those not liked by us, we will begin to accept as 'right' even the wrongs of those liked by us.

Result: Wrongs would begin to get settled in our minds. Because the mind becomes wrong, we will begin to change as a 'wrong person'.

Because, by wearing the glasses called 'wrong', we look at the activities of those whom we don't like, things which are actually 'right' will appear to us with a changed quality and we will see it as 'wrong'. For the question, 'Which is right?' the mind will give only a confusing answer.

Since 'right' does not get settled in our mind in the correct manner, the possibility or opportunity of our becoming a correct person will begin to decrease.

Third type of persons is those who tow the middle paths, they are the neutral people. They are bold. They will prosper in life by utilizing life and the people for their own growth.

Nobody can ever shake the minds of those people, who have learnt to live in a balanced and neutral manner, duly assessing and grading the people, and at the same time without degrading themselves.

Boldness is required to point out the mistakes in a friend. A mature mental attitude is necessary to accept the right things of an enemy.

Both these are the expressions of a person who lives life nicely, towing a middle path.

If one practices to stand in between right and wrong, likes and dislikes, pain and pleasure, good luck and bad luck, it is enough. Peace will come in search of such a person. This is what Buddha calls as the 'Middle path'.

Meat eating was all right for Vivekananda, but it was wrong for Gandhiji. Abstaining from eating meat was right for Gandhiji but was wrong for Vivekananda.

Before Vivekananda's energy and power of his penance, food was not a worthy matter at all. The energy which was frolicking within him had the capacity to protect him beyond food, sleep, words.

Looking at saints or great men and saying, 'That person did this', 'This man did that', and trying to do the same, if an ordinary person begins to do various things, then, depending upon the energy level of such a person, it will result only in dullness and exhaustion.

Under any circumstances, without examining by ourselves just because someone said so, we should not allow anything that is not acceptable to our heart to enter within us.

• The wrongs which have occupied our minds, through persons we like, are many in number.
• Like wise, the right things done by persons whom we do not like that have not caught our attention and slipped away from our minds, are also many in number.
• The phrase, 'persons not liked by us' will apply to such persons only till such time they do things that are not to our liking!
• In the same manner, 'persons liked by us' also applies only as long as they do things to our liking!

Persons liked by us. Persons not liked by us.

-- Both are not permanent.

With your glasses of opinions, stamping the people as good or bad, separating them, leaving away the truth, doing a wrong thing under the name of 'right' – It is enough if you begin to stop doing this mistake. You have started coming closer to the 'Middle path' of Buddha. The gentle breeze of peace has already begun to blow.

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A meaningful incident.

Mukundan asked his wife, who was watching a serial.

'Life is more interesting than the serial. Are you born to live joyfully or to weep and cry? What is there in that to get so much drowned?'

Next day, while Mukundan was reading the newspaper, the wife asked,

'Life is more confusing than the news paper. Am I the wife? Or, is the news paper the wife? What is there in that to get so much engrossed in it?'

• The reason for the quarrels with those we like is because of our limits, saying, 'This is right' and 'This is wrong'.

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Meditation chisels. Chisel No.21.

Mantra to drive out fashion stratagem.

An animal which has been denied the opportunity to at least later on bring back the food to the mouth as cud, then chew and digest it, is man.

Still, he only swallows without chewing, fashionably! Is there a grinder inside the stomach, which will grind whatever is put in?

Eating with finger tips.

Drinking without wetting the lips.

Walking without the heels touching the floor

-- All these are fashions.

These are techniques to decrease our oneness with nature.

Why? Even breathing stops with the chest. The inhaled breath does not occupy the lungs fully. It does not even go deep up to the bottom of the lungs.

What you read above are only some examples to point out that 'man lives an imperfect life'.

Such behavior has merged with your body, life and being to such an extent that it cannot be pointed out. Every thing has become polluted.

What polluted it?

Right from childhood, under various circumstances, certain lines, 'This only is right', 'This only is wrong', have been inserted within you.

They have entered within you in the name of fashion.

Even when a man is doing a wrong thing, the one that makes him say, 'I am doing a right thing only' is only these fashionable methods.

These should be found out and rooted out.

The Mantra to search for the fashionable methods, which have created many quarrels in your body and mind, and drive them away, is to:

'Perform those methods and techniques wholly and fully.'

It will disappear.

Bring to your attention all those times at which you live imperfectly.

Remove and push away the very bad techniques which can be recognized only if you examine very thoroughly and meticulously. Make all the actions during these times 'whole, perfect and full'.

Don't even think about fashion.

If you begin to live fully and wholly, those technique-applying times also will become meditation times.

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